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15 Best Python Courses on Coursera

We compared 15 Python courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $158.00. 11 come from a named university or institution, including The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Michigan and Google. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.

Courses compared
15
Price range
$49.00 – $158.00
Providers
Coursera
Last updated
30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "python" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $158.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Lowest price here University-backed

    Python and Statistics for Financial Analysis

    Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Course Overview: https://youtu.be/JgFV5qzAYno Python is now becoming the number 1 programming language for data science. Due to python’s simplicity and high readability, it is gaining its importance in the financial indu...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Applied Social Network Analysis in Python

    Offered by University of Michigan

    This course will introduce the learner to network analysis through tutorials using the NetworkX library. The course begins with an understanding of what network analysis is and motivations for why we might model phenomen...

    $79.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Python Fundamentals for Designers

    Offered by University of Michigan

    Python Fundamentals for Designers is an introduction to programming using Python meant for students interested in how programming is applied to visual applications and design. The course introduces the foundations of pro...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Design Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python/Rhinoscript

    Offered by University of Michigan

    Why should a designer learn to code? As our world is increasingly impacted by the use of algorithms, designers must learn how to use and create design computing programs. Designers must go beyond the narrowly focused use...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera Certificate University-backed

    Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python

    Offered by Google

    This is the seventh course in the Google Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, learners will be introduced to the Python programming language and learn how to apply it to a security setting to automate tasks. First,...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    BiteSize Python: Data Visualization

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    This course focuses on data visualization, an essential skill for effectively communicating insights derived from data. It introduces three widely used Python packages: Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly, each known for its...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners: Flow Controls

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    This course focuses on mastering Python’s control flow mechanisms, including branching, looping, and functions. It covers essential concepts such as making decisions with if, if-else, and if-elif-else structures (branchi...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL

    Offered by IBM

    Data science is one of the hottest professions of the decade, and the demand for data scientists who can analyze data and communicate results to inform data driven decisions has never been greater. This Specialization fr...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python

    Offered by Vanderbilt University

    Master the Art of Building Intelligent Python Agents That Think, Reason, and Act Unlock the full potential of Python for creating autonomous AI agents that solve complex problems without constant human direction. In this...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Accounting Data Analytics with Python

    Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    This course focuses on developing Python skills for assembling business data. It will cover some of the same material from Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization, but in a more general purpose progra...

    $158.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Introduction to Python for Researchers

    Offered by Imperial College London

    This course teaches the fundamentals of Python 3 in the context of academic research. Our tutor team support researchers across the whole of Imperial College London, including in science, engineering, mathematics, comput...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Introduction to Programming with Python and Java

    Offered by University of Pennsylvania

    This Specialization starts out by teaching basic concepts in Python and ramps up to more complex subjects such as object-oriented programming and data structures in Java. By the time learners complete this series of four...

    $79.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Using Python to Access Web Data

    Offered by University of Michigan

    This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This...

    $79.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Python and Rust with Linux Command Line Tools

    Offered by Duke University

    This course is designed for beginners and those with some programming experience in either Python or Rust that want to implement automation and utilities in the command-line. Although no prior knowledge of Python or Rust...

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Introduction to Python

    Offered by Arizona State University

    In today’s society, uses for new technologies are broadening in scope and revolutionizing the world. Many new technologies automate redundant tasks so people may complete tasks of greater priority. These new automated te...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Python Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 Python and Statistics for Financial Analysis Coursera The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology $49.00 View →
2 Applied Social Network Analysis in Python Coursera University of Michigan $79.00 View →
3 Python Fundamentals for Designers Coursera University of Michigan $49.00 View →
4 Design Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python/Rhinoscript Coursera University of Michigan $49.00 View →
5 Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python Coursera Google $49.00 View →
6 BiteSize Python: Data Visualization Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
7 BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners: Flow Controls Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
8 Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL Coursera IBM $49.00 View →
9 AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python Coursera Vanderbilt University $49.00 View →
10 Accounting Data Analytics with Python Coursera University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign $158.00 View →
11 Introduction to Python for Researchers Coursera Imperial College London $49.00 View →
12 Introduction to Programming with Python and Java Coursera University of Pennsylvania $79.00 View →
13 Using Python to Access Web Data Coursera University of Michigan $79.00 View →
14 Python and Rust with Linux Command Line Tools Coursera Duke University $49.00 View →
15 Introduction to Python Coursera Arizona State University $49.00 View →

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